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Inquiry Question: Did sharecropping keep newly freed slaves in poverty permanently?

Primary Sources/Secondary Sources: 1. PBS. "A Sharecropping Contract." Last modified December 19, 2003.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/reconstruction/sharecrop/ps_dawson.html.
2. PBS. "Not Free Yet." Last modified December 19, 2003.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/reconstruction/sharecrop/ps_adams.html.
3. UNC-CH. "Documenting the American South." Last modified September 18, 2012.
http://docsouth.unc.edu/nc/ncfarmers/farmers.html.
4. Suzanne W. Jones and Mark Newman, Poverty and progress in the U.S. South since 1920 (Amsterdam: VU University Press, 2006)

Outline: I. Intro
II. Historical Context
III. Analysis
a. supporting evidence
b. supporting evidence
IV. Corroboration
V. Conclusion

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